<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344139" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pannikin Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's nothing here sublime, <br>But just a roving rhyme, <br>Run off to pass the time, <br>With nought titanic in. <br>The theme that it supports, <br>And, though it treats of quarts, <br>It's bare of golden thoughts -- <br>It's just a pannikin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think it's rather hard <br>That each Australian bard -- <br>Each wan, poetic card -- <br>With thoughts galvanic in <br>His fiery thought alight, <br>In wild aerial flight, <br>Will sit him down and write <br>About a pannikin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He makes some new-chum fare <br>From out his English lair <br>To hunt the native bear, <br>That curious mannikin; <br>And then the times get bad <br>That wandering English lad <br>Writes out a message sad <br>Upon his pannikin: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;O mother, think of me <br>Beneath the wattle tree&quot; <br>(For you may bet that he <br>Will drag the wattle in) <br>&quot;O mother, here I think <br>That I shall have to sink, <br>There ain't a single drink <br>The water-bottle in.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dingo homeward hies, <br>The sooty crows uprise <br>And caw their fierce surprise <br>A tone Satanic in; <br>And bearded bushmen tread <br>Around the sleeper's head -- <br>&quot;See here -- the bloke is dead! <br>Now where's his pannikin?&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They read his words and weep, <br>And lay him down to sleep <br>Where wattle branches sweep, <br>A style mechanic in; <br>And, reader, that's the way <br>The poets of today <br>Spin out their little lay <br>About a pannikin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344139" data-title="The Pannikin Poet de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="There's nothing here sublime, But just a roving rhyme, Run off to pass the time, With nought titanic in. The theme that it supports, And, though it treats of quarts, It's bare of golden thoughts -- It's just a pannikin. I think it's rathe..."></div> </div> </div>

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